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Friday, December 9, 2016

RUSH: This fake news stuff going on out there. You know what this fake news stuff is? Just a distraction. The fake news is the Drive-By Media! The fake news was all of the polling going into this election. The fake news is all of the misreporting on Trump. The reason why there is any fake news is because the mainstream media has lost its credibility. Do you realize if there was any news entity out there -- call it the mainstream media, call it anything.

If there was a news entity that had credibility and was trustworthy, then fake news would be spotted immediately, and it would not succeed. But there is no authority anymore. The Drive-By Media announced that they were getting rid of objectivity. They announced that they were going partisan. They did it on the front page of the New York Times in a piece by Jim Rutenberg, and they said they had to abandon the principles of journalism because the possibility of Donald Trump being elected was so outrageous and unacceptable they had to pull out all the stops and do anything they could to defeat him.

Which meant bye-bye journalism. Now, I understand that the Drive-Bys have not been practicing real journalism for a long time. But in the eyes of many, including low-information crowd, they still had credibility. If the New York Times said it, if CBS, ABC said it, the tendency was to believe it. That's gone! Nobody believes anything they hear anymore. Nobody trusts anything. The mainstream media has abandoned the very things which gave it credibility, which provided its authority -- its moral authority, everything else.

As such, there is not a news industry today that has credibility and authority and believability, and that is why this so-called fake news has sprung up and has become so widespread. And now the fake news is practiced by the mainstream media. Hillary Clinton was a purveyor of fake news! Barack Obama originated fake news when they came up with this theory that it was a video responsible for the terrorist attack in Benghazi, and the Drive-By Media picked it up and ran with it -- and everybody knew it was untrue!

From Obama to Hillary on down, they knew it was untrue but they were trying to make people believe it. Fake news has always been around. It's been called satire. It's called parody. We are among the greatest practitioners of it and have been for the entire history of this program. But everybody wants to get in the act, and so all kinds of people are trying their hand at it now. The Drive-Bys can raise holy hell, and they can point fingers of blame, but they had better be looking right at themselves, because they are the reason fake news exists.

They are the reason you can't tell anymore what's fake and what isn't. But you know what? Audiences know. Audiences trust Donald Trump. You in this audience trust me, and that is something I have always known and never take for granted. And I make certain that if I engage in what I call parody or satire -- and if I do it wrong, and you get the wrong impression -- if you're not laughing at it, if you're not in the on the joke, then I have to go make it right at some point. But there's a lot of news out there.

There's no single, industry-wide entity that's believed anymore. That's why fake news. I mean, how ironic is it? Grab audio sound bite number one. Brian Williams. You remember Brian Williams? Brian Williams used to be the anchor of the NBC Nightly News until it was found out that he was literally lying and making up stories about the events he had covered and inserting himself in the stories, and telling the audience that he was there when something happened and knew the people involved.

It was totally exposed as a made-up lie -- and NBC, people inside, were actually trying to save him and his job. He went on an extended leave of absence, and they finally brought him back, and put him on MSNBC in charge of breaking news. Brian Williams Tuesday night was on his show called The 11th Hour with Brian Williams. Here's a portion of his report about Trump's transition team firing the son of national security adviser nominee Mike Flynn for passing on a fake news story on Twitter.

WILLIAMS: Another former general in the Trump circle is receiving new attention. His national adviser designate, Mike Flynn. Flynn's son was fired by the Trump transition today for passing on fake news stories via Twitter. But his dad, the retired Army three-star general, has passed on some gems himself. Here are a few: Clinton is involved with child sex trafficking and as secretly waged war on the Catholic Church --

RUSH: Stand by.

WILLIAMS: -- as well as charges that the president is a jihadi --

RUSH: Stand by.

WILLIAMS: -- who laundered money for Muslim terrorists.

RUSH: Listen!

WILLIAMS: As we talked about here last night, fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience.

RUSH: Stop the tape! "Fake news flayed a role in this election and continues to..." For Brian Williams to announce it? He was fake news! In fact, he may be the poster child for it. You know, I'm not comfortable saying this 'cause I know the guy. I've met him in the old days when I went over to MSNBC when they were in Fort Lee and I would make the mistake of appearing over there, and I'd run into him in his office. He was as funny as he could be, could do stand-up if he wanted to. But I'm sorry to say, he's the poster child for fake news.

And here he is telling everybody that fake news played a role in this election? Fake news, my a--. Here, you want some fake news? "MSNBC Host Falsely Accuses Fox News of Holding Christmas Party at Trump's Washington Hotel -- MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle claimed that Fox News had held its Christmas party at President-elect Donald Trump's recently opened Washington hotel. There's just one little problem. [Fox News] hasn't even had its party yet." Fox News has not had a Christmas party, and it's not gonna be at Trump's hotel. They just make it up, and that's what MSNBC does.

And now Hillary's out there shooting off her mouth about it as though fake news is why she lost.

She lost because she's unappealing as a candidate!

She lost because she didn't work hard at it.

She lost because she has no idea how to relate to average, ordinary Americans. She called half the country deplorable, and she's continuing that characterization by virtue of her behavior in the postelection aftermath. But I'm gonna tell you this, folks. It redounds to our benefit. The more the Democrats remain in denial about why they lost, the deeper in doo-doo they're gonna be and the harder it's gonna be for them to extricate themselves.

The longer they lie to themselves about why they lost and why they've been losing since 2008, the better off for everybody who's opposed to them. There's a great thing happening out there right now, folks. Low-information voters and people all over the country are finally seeing -- they're not being told -- they are seeing, they are witnessing who and what liberals and liberalism is.

They are seeing the extremism. They are witnessing it firsthand. Nobody's telling them. We've already done that. I've spent my life here explaining liberalism and defining it to people. Some believed it, some took it under advisement, some it didn't matter. But now this hysteria, this unhinged lunatic behavior, they are demonstrating it to everybody. And the more they do, the better off everybody is.

The more people that understand just how unhinged, unrealistic and divorced from reality liberalism is and how damaging, how hurtful that it is, the better everybody is, better off everybody. Another point that has to be made here, it's all happening not because commentators are telling people. It's not happening because of so-called arbiters of conservatism who've been telling people and warning people for decades about the dangers, it's not because of that. It's not because of me. It's not because of anybody.

It's because of liberals themselves in defeat, unhinged, in denial, incapable of accepting the reasons why they lost. So now they're out there in this childlike behavior blaming everything and everybody else, and it's free and clear for everybody to see just who these people are. And Hillary Clinton and Obama are leading the charge.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: You want to know what fake news is? Fake news is "hands up, don't shoot." And that fake news lasted for two years coming out of Ferguson, Missouri. There was no "hands up, don't shoot." It didn't happen. You know more fake news? "I can't breathe, I can't breathe," Eric Garner in New York supposedly choked by policemen. He didn't. He had a heart attack. There was no "hands up, don't shoot." Michael Brown was not running away from the cop. He wasn't surrendering. His hands weren't up, but everybody was lying about it.

You want fake news? The left owns fake news! I'm sorry to get so agitated about it here, but I'm about at my wits' end on this. The latest batch of fake news is that the Russians are responsible for Hillary's loss because they wanted Trump to win so they hacked voting machines. They have down recounts in three states. Trump is picking up votes in two of the three states. The entire recount is fraud. There was never any fraud that could be measured in terms of any hackery.

The Russians didn't have anything to do with it, but the Democrats are telling themselves that's why they lost, big time fake news. And CNN has breaking news that Obama has ordered a full review of 2016 election hacking by the Russians. The news comes from Lisa Monaco who is an adviser to Homeland Security counterterrorism.

And then there's this. "Republicans Ready to Launch Wide-Ranging Probe of Russia, Despite Trump’s Stance." What do you think when you hear that headline? Well, are you still confused? Well, don't be. Because the headline makes it look like "the Republicans in Washington are going to look into this business of the Russians hacking." It isn't the Republicans. Lindsey Graham and McCain. Senator Lindsey Graham said he plans to spearhead legislation to hold a series of investigative hearings, and McCain joined him. That's it. The headline, "Republicans Ready to Launch Wide-Ranging Probe."

So now Obama's gonna run around (imitating Obama), "You know what? The Republicans realize it's a problem too, 'cause they have decided to join me in this investigation." The Republicans haven't decided to do anything! A couple of people that wish Trump weren't president on the Republican side, McCain and Lindsey Graham, are doing this! It's fake news! The fake news is the everyday news you see on any network you choose to listen to or watch or any newspaper you care to open.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: You want another example of fake news? I'm gonna... Folks, this is starting to really irritate me because of the lifespan this stuff is getting. Fake news... When you rip it apart and you strip it down, fake news is actually that which exposes the fraud that is mainstream news today, and that's really what they are upset about. Anything that exposes how they are fraudulently reporting and lying to you, they call "fake news." They have lost their moral authority. They've lost their source authority. They have lost their credibility.

That's why any of this is happening, and they know it, and so they are attacking anything other than them as a means of trying to reclaim that authority that they've lost. But remember the "white Hispanic" George Zimmerman and the event that ended in the death of Trayvon Martin. Remember that? There was a 911 call. Zimmerman called 911 after the event, and the EMS people -- the operators at 911 -- are asking him questions, and they're asking him to describe Trayvon Martin. So Zimmerman describes various aspects, and then the people on the 911 end of the call ask, "Is he black? Is he white? Is he...?"

And he says, "No, he's black."

NBC edited that call. They edited the 911 call and omitted Zimmerman being asked to describe Trayvon Martin, and the 911 call that they aired made it look like the first thing Zimmerman said about the guy was that he was black. And that allowed NBC to claim that Zimmerman was a white racist, as a "white Hispanic," who had killed Trayvon Martin only because he was black. Fake news par excellence. Fake news. It's no different than when NBC blew up a pickup truck on Dateline NBC to make it look like manufacturers were selling defective vehicles that could blow up on you.

There is a long history of fake news and lying news and distorted news from the mainstream media, and they're now being called on it. They are the ones who announced via our old friend Jim Rutenberg! I couldn't believe it when I saw it. Front page the New York Times: We in the media have got to abandon our principles of journalism in order to defeat Donald Trump. His potential election is such a great threat to America that we have to abandon our principles of fairness and objectivity and truth and do whatever it takes -- including use our opinions -- to destroy Donald Trump.

From the moment they did that, they just threw away the primary ingredient they had always been thought to have, and that is objectivity and fairness and not bias, and there's a lot of people who thought they were nonbiased and fair and all that. Don't doubt me on that. It's the low-information voter crowd. I mean, you wouldn't believe, folks, the number of young people to whom the New York Times is a Bible. I could show you stories of 25-year-old, 30-year-old tech people who think the greatest day in their lives is when the New York Times removed the pay wall and became free. They were so excited, they wrote about it for a week.

Now, to me, the New York Times is worthless, literally worthless -- angrily, literally worthless -- to me. But to them, it's gospel, and they've thrown it away.

CALLER: It's four a.m. Saturday morning here, and it's still an honor to speak with you.

RUSH: Well, it's great to have you with us. I really mean that. Thank you for calling.

CALLER: Yeah, the theme of late has been fake news, and I read a quote from Denzel Washington. He said, "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read it, you're misinformed." And my concern is that all of this fake news over the years has created a house of cards for these liberals, and it's all fragile --and since the election, it's all falling apart. My concern is for the generation of people, these people who've swallowed it all hook, line, and sinker. What are we to do with them? It's a whole generation of people out there misinformed.

RUSH: Yeah, I know. We've been fighting it for years and years and years. It's been a feature of American life. Actually, Nick, in one sense it's okay because it's been a feature of media from the beginning of time. There's been dishonest media; exaggerating media; lying, distorting media. It's always been out there. That's one of the things about a free society. That's one of the prices, and you're gonna go in cycles, because informed public, uninformed public, uninformed public voting, these are just the things that you deal with, and you constantly try to do your best to educate people, and that's why we focus on it. That's why I'm writing these children's books for young adults and so forth and doing this program. A lot of people are working on it. And, on balance, it's served us. It's frustrating as it can be, but --

CALLER: Yeah. I engage these people quite often, these liberals, and one on one I have some success. But en masse, they just don't listen; they're hostile.

RUSH: Totally.

CALLER: Yeah.

RUSH: Totally. Hey, look, you're in Okinawa, but I still want to end is you a new iPhone 7 or 7 Plus. We can do it, but I need to... (sigh) Your carrier is gonna be a challenge for us. What carrier do you have?

CALLER: I have T-Mobile 'cause when I travel to the [United] States, I use that.

RUSH: Fake news is what the news is today. You don't have to go looking for it. You don't have to go looking for it in blogs. You don't have to go looking for it in obscure websites.

Just turn on your favorite news network or tune into or listen to or watch, read your favorite newspaper. And fake news abounds. "Hands up, don't shoot," fake news. George Zimmerman, "white Hispanic," fake news. A video caused the terrorism at Benghazi, fake news. The Democrats lost because the Russians hacked the election, fake news! But it's not stopping Obama from conducting an official investigation into how the Russians hacked our election.

Now, I don't actually mind that because the more these people end up in denial and the more they keep lying to themselves about why they lost, the greater length of time it's gonna be before they modify. If they're content to still have people like Pelosi out there as the face of the Democrat Party, and, if Hillary Clinton and Obama are not gonna go away, continue to be the face of the Democrat Party, bring it on. The longer these people continue to live in denial about why they lost, that just means the longer it's gonna be before they start making the changes they have to make if they're gonna win elections at the local level again, which is where they're gonna have to go.

Let's go to the audio sound bites on this. Hillary Clinton. This was late yesterday afternoon in Washington on Capitol Hill. Her bash was last night for her donors, right? Yeah, two things, the Harry Reid thing, but when is this party for her donors? I thought it was last night or tonight or maybe it's next Wednesday. I've been confused about the date. But the interesting thing about that, here's Donald Trump running around doing free rallies, and his purpose is to thank the people who voted for him and to continue explain his agenda.

What he's doing is brilliant, folks. I don't care what you think of Trump, I don't care what you think of his agenda, I don't care if you're a Never Trumper, Republican establishment, Democrat, you're watching a master at work in Donald Trump. I don't care if you disagree with what he's doing, saying, you're watching a master.

Okay, December 15th is her party. Okay. So in six days.

He is reinforcing why they elected him. He's thanking them. He is explaining his agenda day in and day out. Remember the mistake the Republicans made in 1994. They stopped teaching after they won the House. They assumed everybody had gone conservative, the whole country had gone conservative. Trump is making no assumptions. He knows exactly why he won, and he's going around continually reminding people, and he's going to these states that the Democrats laugh at and make fun of. He's going to the states where many of his cabinet picks are from.

And, meanwhile, the Democrats are sitting out there in their usual huddles lying to themselves about why they lost, and it has nothing to do with them. No, no, no, no. Fake News, the Russians, stupid voters, Trump lied, any number of things. Except the truth. And here's Hillary. She went up to the Harry Reid photo or portrait unveiling and good-bye to Harry Reid.

And I'm told that when she was seen walking into this thing, that young women in the capitol literally started crying. "Hillary! (wailing) Thank you for... (crying) Oh, my, what could have been! (sobbing) I haven't had sex since the election! (blubbering)" They're saying that, by the way. No sex. They're even writing it, some babe at The Atlantic or whoever it was. I don't know, "I haven't had sex since the election, and it's Trump's fault." Well, I don't if it's on strike. They're just a special kind of stupid! They're in the throes of depression. You know what other young women are doing? They're dyeing their hair black instead of wearing veils, lamenting the defeat of Hillary Clinton.

Anyway, here's Hillary on Capitol Hill speaking at the unveiling ceremony of the Dingy Harry portrait...

HILLARY: (haltingly) ...the epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over him the past year. It's now clear that so-called fake news can have real world consequences. Lives are at risk. Bipartisan legislation is making its way through Congress to boost the government's response to foreign propaganda, and Silicon Valley is starting to grapple with the challenge and threat of fake news. It's imperative that leaders in both the private sector and the public sector step up to protect our democracy and innocent lives.

After the Reid event, Hillary Clinton greeted several Kaine staffers and young supporters, some of whom can be heard sobbing in this video pic.twitter.com/DRq0BApck1

RUSH: I'm just gonna tell you again. Mrs. Clinton, the reason fake news even lives is because people like you have abandoned all authority and credibility. You've got none. People think you lie. Your husband lies every time he opens his mouth. They think the Drive-By Media lies and tell us falsehoods and is biased irreparably and incorrigibly. There isn't any source authority for anything out there now. So whatever goes, goes. There is no... In fact, do you know what the proof of this is? The proof that the Drive-By Media no longer is source authority and no longer has credibility? They have their own fact check operations to fact check themselves! We put together a little montage of Hillary Clinton as a purveyor of fake news herself.

HILLARY (1/27/1998): The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it, is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband.

HILLARY (6/9/2014): We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

HILLARY (4/23/1994): I did not know that Vince had any of the documents related to our personal business in his office until after his death.

HILLARY (9/13/2012): This video is disgusting and reprehensible. It appears to have a deeply cynical purpose, to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage.

HILLARY (3/10/2015): I thought using one device would be simpler.

HILLARY (6/14/1994): ...1975, I decided that I was very interested in having some experience in serving in some capacity in the military. And he finally said to me... He said, "You're too old. You can't see. And you're a woman."

HILLARY (3/17/2008): I remember landing under sniper fire.

HILLARY (1/27/1998): And to my husband. I mean, you know, he woke me up Wednesday morning and said, "You're not going to believe this, but," and I said, "What is this?"

RUSH: That's just a brief montage of the fake news that Hillary Clinton has been responsible for herself. So every one of those is a lie! Every one of those little montage ingredients is fake news, not to mention the story she tells about being named after the mountaineer, Sir Edmund Hillary, first man to climb Mt. Everest. The only problem with that is that when he was born, nobody'd ever heard of him. He didn't climb Mt. Everest 'til six years after she was born!

One of the reasons Democrats hate the Electoral College is that it limits voter fraud.

Generally speaking, high levels of illegal voting can occur only if the government looks the other way. That’s why voter fraud is more rampant in Democrat-run cities like Chicago and states like California than in rural Iowa.

Allowing voter fraud, of course, happens only if the people in power believe that the illegal votes will help them.

That’s why in the Florida recount of 2001, the Democrats were unconcerned about illegal ballots but desperate to ensure that military ballots weren’t counted. They knew that illegal votes would tend Democrat, and military votes would tend Republican.

That’s also why, in California, illegals were given drivers licenses in early 2016. If you’ve got a drivers license, it’s a lot easier to vote illegally, especially since the “Motor Voter” law means that people can register to vote when they get a driver’s license.

Fortunately for America, the Electoral College limits how much the crooked politician in California, and Illinois, can impact the presidential election. No matter how many dead people vote in Chicago or how many illegal immigrants vote in California, the dishonest Dems in those states can impact only a limited number of votes in the Electoral College.

Without the Electoral College, Democrat machines in cities like Chicago and corrupt Democrats in states like N.Y. and California could simply churn out enough votes to ensure that their candidate is elected president.

They’ve done something similar before. In the 1960 election, the southern, Republican precincts in Illinois reported their vote tallies. Then, later, Cook County – home to the Democrat machine – precincts reported and produced just enough votes to ensure that Illinois went to Kennedy.

Republicans learned their lesson, and in subsequent elections, southern areas reported a few totals and waited for the city to report a few totals to ensure that the Democrats couldn’t just magically produce the vote counts they needed.

When Democrats talk about democracy, they’re talking not about the choice of the American people, but of the choice of many illegal aliens, felons, and dead people.

To Democrats, all that matters is winning, and any technique they use is justified by the “goodness” of their cause. That’s why they reject the law this time and declare that the popular vote is all that matters.

Hence, in a world where Obama’s DOJ won’t investigate voter fraud, the Electoral College is our last protection against the many well established Democrat voter fraud machines.

An illegal alien who killed two women in a drunken hit-and-run in Louisville, Ky. has been deported eight times, the Justice Department revealed on Wednesday.

Miguel Angel Villasenor-Saucedo, 40, was driving a truck when he hit and killed two women who were on the side of a highway in Louisville following a traffic accident. After striking the women, the Mexican national fled the scene on foot.

He has not been apprehended, but a federal grand jury indicted him this week for illegal re-entry after deportation. If convicted of illegal re-entry, the illegal alien faces a maximum penalty of two years in prison.

Sound familiar? This isn’t the first of its kind. Here’s a brief list of illegal highlights from the past year…

Stories like this keep popping up like… Well, illegal immigrants. The obvious thru line? These violent cretins should have never been here in the first place. Unfortunately for their victims, they were always just one border hop away from being murdered. Doomed to an inevitable fate thanks to our tawdry national security (see ICE Brags About Arresting 101 Illegals… Out of 172,000). At least they tried.

Take this guy for example – he was deported eight times. Persistent little wart. You’d think after, say, the first three or four times, officials would begin to sense what we call a “pattern.” See, when something happens consistently in the same manner it becomes easy to predict what will happen next. For instance, ICE being a festering pile of fail? Predictable. It’s part of a long, rich pattern of suck.

It’s stories like this that Democrats always ignore. By shoving their heads firmly in the rectum of the closest feminist they can find. Hence why the political pendulum swung, bulldozing its way through the Democrat establishment. Seems like Americans are a tad fed up with the leftist way of handling such criminality (read 1,800 Illegal Immigrants to be Deported. Obama Admin Grants Citizenship Instead…).

Good example of how the Dirt bags on the left are controlling the media or like in a Dictator Country where they Control what they want you hear.

As the mainstream media continues to promote the story that Trump is trying to control them, we learn about the Clinton campaign’s the Democratic Party’s paranoid quest to protect themselves from any bad press. The latest revelation Was that Hillary Clinton’s campaign tried to remove Mika Brzezinski from the air after she criticized Democratic presidential candidate, the Morning Joe co-host revealed Friday morning. Debbie Wasserman Schultz tried something similar before she was ousted as DNC Chair.

Of course, MSNBC withstood the liberals’ pressure and Brzezinski was not removed from her show.

“Listen, when I was concerned the campaign was not understanding that perhaps there was some arrogance, that they need to get off their high horse and understand that this wasn’t over. I’ll just say it; NBC received a call from the campaign. Like I had done something that was journalistically inappropriate and needed to be pulled off the air. I mean, think about that. That’s just shooting the wrong messenger.”

Her partner on the show Joe Scarborough added, “By the way, Mika, there were also people surrounding the campaign that tried to tell the campaign it was in trouble. Those people were shut out.”

The Democrats may have it out for Brzezinski. You may remember WikiLeaks released an email sent from then-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s personal account to Chuck Todd who, along with his on-air roles, serves as the NBC News Political Director. In the letter the former complained about a Mika Brzezinski comment about her:

Thursday, December 8, 2016

RUSH: Well, you probably heard by now, folks -- maybe you haven't heard by now. If you haven't heard by now, let me tell you. The Jill Stein-Hillary Clinton recount has been stopped by a federal judge in Michigan. You know what that means? Means it's over. It means the end of any real chance -- not that there really was one, but of course the left is in fantasy land. But this is it. I mean, this ends any real chance of the election results being reversed by any kind of a recount.

So, speaking of counts, this is another historic precedent for Hillary Clinton. She just keeps losing. The way I look at this, she's lost three times now. She lost in 2008. She lost this year, and now she lost the recount. Remember when Trump said that we're gonna get tired of all the winning? He's on the campaign trail, he said to his audience (paraphrasing), "You're gonna be asking me, you're gonna be begging me to just slow down, stop the winning, there's too much winning, there's so much winning." For Hillary Clinton, it's the losing that keeps on coming. And I am not unhappy to see it.

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RUSH: By the way, folks, not only has a judge shut down the recount in Michigan for the third Hillary Clinton loss of the presidency since 2008, you know what else is happening in the recount? Trump has gained something like that either 123 or 143 votes. Trump won even bigger as a result of the Jillary Stein recount. I mean, it's all backfiring on these people! It's just rearing up -- it's like a rattlesnake -- and just continues to bite these people. They haven't figured out it out, and there's no antidote to the venom.

It's like you put a bag of manure in front of 'em and they keep stepping in it. It's actually kind of fun to see.